Locking up the parliamentary press gallery, a gallery

Budget days are the best and worst of times for Hill journalists. On the one hand there’s a 500-page document brimming with stories that strike at the intersection of politics, policy, and and the shortest four-letter word in Canada: tax. On the other: six-and-a-half hours of substandard coffee, no e-mail or Twitter, and, well, a 500 page document…